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There was excitement around the early days of the Arturas Karnisovas regime for good reason.
The Bulls’ executive vice president of basketball operations stepped in, gave a fair evaluation of the situation, and by Year 2 was already flipping the roster.
It was impressive and it also paid almost instant dividends with the Bulls playing like a Eastern Conference powerhouse midway through the 2021-22 season. Then it was as if creativity just stopped.
Plan A hit the wall because of injuries and there was seemingly no Plan B.
So while Karnisovas did at least acknowledge on Saturday that mistakes have been made, promises of that being turned around might prove to be easier said than done.